Peter's Pence A third account was also considered: the annual Peter's Pence collection.

Across London, Williams was conferring Lambeth degrees, a practice dating back to Peter's Pence Act of 1533, which empowers the head of the Anglican church to grant academic dispensations that were previously given by the Pope.

Now Nicky, being a practical man, told Hank the 2nd to go ahead and invade--but the papacy must get one penny per annum per household--a Peter's Pence situation that began 800 years of subjugation, extortion, robbery, murder and the forced descent of the Irish people into indescribable poverty from which only now, with the odd coincidence of the waning of the power of the church in that little isle, are they emerging.